Want fries with that? The Weinstein Co. has acquired U.S. distribution rights to "The Founder," an upcoming drama starring Michael Keaton as McDonald's mogul Ray Kroc, the studio announced Monday with FilmNation Entertainment.

Cross-country coaches may be buying tickets to "McFarland, USA" in bulk.
It's the inspirational story of a real-life coach at McFarland High School who molded a winning team of Latino runners. The young athletes squeezed in training and racing between...

No sport gives itself over to mystical lyricism the way baseball does, and Kevin Costner owns the songbook.
Yet the 60-year-old actor, burnished by the California sun till he's become the color of a Rawlings glove, still sees himself as the longshot...

The Oscar producers have lined up Tim McGraw to perform "I'm Not Gonna Miss You," the Oscar-nominated song by Glen Campbell and Julian Raymond.
The song comes from the documentary "Glen Campbell ... I'll Be Me," about the singer's farewell tour and...

Arts, fitness and sports park programs would be expanded under the proposed $448.6 million Chicago Park District budget released on Thursday, but fees would increase for programs, parking and permits.
The proposed 2015 budget had the highest year-over-year increase in nearly 10 years—up $23 million compared to 2014—mainly due to contributions to the pension fund plus increased salary expenses and rising health care costs for personnel.
Unlike the budget for 2014, which counted on a...

It has been 45 years since Gary Donatelli walked on to the football field at Glenbrook North High School, where he was good enough to snare a scholarship to Indiana University.
"There's nothing like high school sports," he said in a phone interview, with more than a touch of wistfulness. "It's still pure."
As a lauded camera operator on "ABC's Wide World of Sports" and "Monday Night Football" during the 1980s, the Northbrook native has more than a passing knowledge of the game. He also knows something...

Perhaps the least interesting thing about Megan Ellison, Gigi Pritzker and Molly Smith is that these game-changing film financiers happen to be the scions of three of America's wealthiest families -- a status that's more Trivial Pursuit factoid than it is relevant to their dramatic impact on the current indie movie scene. Indeed, there is a long history of private-sector capitalists who gambled on the film business, from Howard Hughes in the 1940s to the more recent likes of industrialist Steven Rales and...

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Emmanuel Jal has many scarring memories from when he was conscripted as a boy to fight in the second Sudanese civil war. But few stand out like the time he and other child soldiers escaped their quarters as members of the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army they had been pressured to join.
"There were a few hundred of us, and there was no food," Jal, now 34, said. "And right there I was tempted to eat my friend. That's actually the moment I remember the cannibalism started."
He paused. "There were...

For all of Hollywood’s commitment to social causes, there are few suggestions that stop an entertainment-industry conversation in its tracks faster than “Let's finance a movie about immigrants and a distant conflict."
Yet when “The Good Lie” — a story about the Lost Boys, the thousands of South Sudanese who survived war and famine to come to the U.S. — is released by Warner Bros. on more than 400 screens next week, it will show those conversations aren't always...

A good lie, according to Huckleberry Finn, is a prevarication where the "rightness" of the outcome excuses the "wrongness" of having fibbed in the first place. to a film that isn't really about her character at all -- nor should it be. But if that mistruth helps spread the word about the Sudanese situation, earning Warner Bros. a pretty penny in the process, how wrong can it be?
The thing is, we miss Reese. Over the past decade, the actress has grown too scarce on the bigscreen, and though "Wild"...